Mike Carruthers:
We think of plants as being fairly benign but there are some mean, nasty and dangerous plants - for instance oleander.

Amy Stewart:
Oleanders grow all over the southern part of the United States and it is really a highly, highly toxic shrub that will make you very sick. It will make you very weak and can kill you quite quickly.

The word jeans comes from Genoa, Italy which was a major shipping port in the middle ages and the French called the Genoans, "The Gene." And one of the things that they made in Genoa was sort of a precursor to denim material, which is known as jean cloth.